On Nov 5, 2004, at 4:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"Gay Marriage! Haven't we done enough to those people already!" Asked a New
Yorker cartoon.
Actually the amendments that passed generally block *all* kinds of marriage by proclaiming it's one man:one woman only. Plural marriage is out, and there's lots of room to wrangle what "man" and "woman" actually mean legally. At the very least it is arguable that no one under 18 can be married in those states either now.
There is a much greater threat to our social fabric. A threat as real as
a time bomb waiting to explode: Education, or rather, the lack there of.
[The pedant in me wants to point out that the term is "thereof", not "there of".]
In my local school district the percentage of students receiving grades of D and F is, alarmingly high.
Not around here; they've just lowered standards to the point that students pass anyway.
Mind you that's at the local charter school. The public schools are being abandoned in droves by students who whine that the curriculum is "too hard" and whose parents are tired of having their kids flunk.
When students become customers, education is doomed.
Stupidity is a greater threat to or nation then alien terrorists. Home
grown terrorists, druggies with guns and to much testosterone, should be
eliminated, making America a safe country to live in.
How do you propose doing the above?
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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